CORRECTION: IKEA’s knock on wood

Monday, May 21, 2012

IKEA has updated figures it provided on the number of global stores for a story (“IKEA’s knock on wood,” April 2012) about how the company has weaned itself off wood pallets for shipping boxes. The retailer now says it has more than 300 stores around the world, not 287.
The story also should have said that the plastic loading ledge it now uses was designed by its Packaging Concepts group, not the Materials Handling group. Unit Load Systems sells the devices in the United States under license to Inter IKEA Systems B.V., a related but separate company from IKEA.